"No, it's too risky," William instantly declined what she was about to say, "just send someone with something they can recognise it came from you, and I'll write down the list of things I want."
"Ok..."
"Make sure Sloth will bring them, no one else," William stressed over this point, making Anjie feel he had an ulterior motive to say so.
"What are we going to do now?" Lina looked at Berry and Sara, "will we also suffer like them?"
"I bet," William didn't hide this fact, "but next time we'll be well prepared..."
"We had most of our guild masters actively guarding, but we didn't find any trace of them until..." Ro paused, looked at others around, and they silently nodded or looked down to the ground.
This was the second failure, the second time they failed to deal with this new power. And yet William didn't find this surprising. The masters they were facing this time were quite a headache.
"I noticed a few blind spots around the town," he paused, before taking a scroll and a brush out and started drawing and marking certain points at the walls and town, "make sure to cover all these, and we need an alarming signal to be distributed across our guards."
"Will we be able to stop them?"
"What would happen if they came again, and we found them?"
"I don't think we can kill them..."
Doubt started to find its way deep into their spirits. But William wasn't feeling the same. "If they wanted you dead, they'd have killed you when they entrapped you back there," he slowly said, before adding, "and don't forget I'm here. If I said we can stop them, then we can."
His words landed and everyone's doubt vanished. They got a moment of lack of confidence, something quite expected after what they lived through.
Just before he'd start healing the two girls, he heard a sudden voice coming from one of them. William slowly turned, looked with a calm smile over Berry who was now slowly standing on the ground.
"What took you so long?" he chuckled, and Berry moved her fingers across her hair, a move she rarely used, never used in such a natural and sexy way.
"You were awaiting me, impressive," she checked Berry's body before adding with disdain, "this type of body won't lure any good man towards it, what a waste! I should have moved into my good girl instead."
"Risking cutting off the last toxin strand within her? No way!" William laughed before pointing towards Berry, "and I like her. That makes her attracted to a very good man."
"Can't argue with that," Sara's mother tilted her mouth before adding, "I used a technique to read through Jenny's memories. It seems you know quite a ton about her. Who are you?"
"Sorry, I'm not interested in old ladies!"
"As if you can reach me in the first place, hehehe," Sara's mother paused, before adding, "I'm here to call for a deal and a truce."
"I get it, but a truce? You plan on staying here for a long time?!" William threw one of the potions he made in the air, as if he was playing and not facing a deadly foe right now.
"Something tells me this won't be our last meeting," Sara's mother said in a serious tone this time, and William also met that with a serious look on his face.
"You can count on that," he paused, before adding, "Sara will remain with me..."
"Not acceptable!"
"And Jenny," William continued speaking as if he wasn't interrupted by her.
"Why not add me to your bag then? A fcked up man with deep desire and sexual hunger you are!"